{"id":7227,"date":"2023-06-30T19:43:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T02:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7227"},"modified":"2023-06-30T19:43:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T02:43:52","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/06\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-409","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 409"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a> On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is volume 409, a prime number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Religion Has Become a Luxury Good<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Substack): \u201cMore educated people are more likely to claim a religious affiliation on surveys. It\u2019s true in every single wave of the Cooperative Election Study. It\u2019s also the case in the Nationscape survey, which is 477K respondents. They even have 4,000 people with doctoral degrees in their sample. The most likely to be non-religious? Those who didn\u2019t finish high school. As education increases, so does religious affiliation. The group with the highest level of religious affiliation are those with a master\u2019s degree.\u201d<\/strong> Emphasis in original.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. When the Sermon Fizzles Instead of Sizzles<\/a> (Tim Challies, personal blog): \u201cBut who\u2019s to say that, in the mind of God, the power of the preaching is entirely in the hands of the preacher? Who\u2019s to say that the pastor\u2019s task is to prepare the sermon while the congregation\u2019s task is merely to prepare their own hearts to hear it? What if preaching is powerless not because of the pastor\u2019s lack of preparation but because of the church\u2019s lack of prayer? What if poor preaching is not the consequence of any failure on the pastor\u2019s part but on the congregation\u2019s?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Why I\u2019m Not a Liberal Catholic<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cBut I just don\u2019t see how you can look at the modern world, writ large, and its most developed precincts especially \u2014 the world of sex education via ubiquitous pornography, faltering marriage rates, collapsing birthrates, the alienation of the sexes from one another, the rising existential angst attending all these trends and the creep of euthanasia as a \u2018merciful\u2019 solution \u2014 and say that clearly what the church needs to do at this<\/em> historical moment is water down or just talk less about its teachings on sex and marriage and family, rather than find a way to reassert them or offer them anew.\u201d